Colours in console

[Roman Dijanosic]

After: console power off -> shift-d -> console power on
I get console defaults loaded. However those defaults
means white background/black characters. I some get
used to HP-style black background/yellow characters.
Somehow I didn't find in setup of console (through
setup/menu and other "function" keys on the keyboard)
the way in where you set-up colours. The closest
possible option was "Inverse terminal" but it didn't do
anything.

Anybody already have such problem? Any ideas where
to look?

Tech info:
Server D380
Console: HP70096

[melvyn burnard]

An HP 700/96 Serial terminalcame in one of (and only one) three colour displays:
black/white
black/orange
black/green

Thre was a different option used to specify which you got when rdering.
You use the config keys on the terminal to decide whether you have a black background with the characters in the colour , or the colour background with black characters.

So if you have a black/white version, you use default setting of white page background and black characters, or else you select inverse video and have black background and white characters.
You cannot change the colours to orange or green.

[Roman Dijanosic]

Hmmm. Still don't get what to do Melvyn. I've tried to
user "Inverse video" but didn't help...

Roman

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

To reverse foreground and background (black letters on a ight background), bring up the menu with a CONFIG key on the right (use the System button between f4 and f5). Press CONFIG and you'll see two keys for configuring many of the terminal's features. The leftmost f1 key configures the terminaol display. Use the tab key to change to the NORMAL/INVERSE display and use the function keys to change the value. You must exit using the SAVE CONFIG key. The power-on holding-the-D-key-down will reset the terminal back to defaults.

Note also that programs and scripts can easily change the appearance of the display once HP-UX is running, so if the display changes by itself, look for some programs or scripts that are sending escape sequences to the terminal. Another reason is trying to list a binary file which may contain random sequences that change the terminal's appearance. Always use cat -v when listing unknown files.

[Roman Dijanosic]

Thanks Bill. From what you told me I concluded that I
didn't "find" all possible options in console setting
previously... Now I paid more attention and found
what I should find in the first place.

But one tiny thing is still missing to me. Now I have
black background and white foreground. Terminals
70096 should be also able to show orange foreground.
Do you know exactly (which option in console settings) where this is set (foreground color white or orange?).

I think that inspect all possible options in console
settings but didn't find nothing about foreground
settings.

[melvyn burnard]

If you read my response, you will see thath you cannot change the colour of these terminals.
They are either black/white, or orange/white, or green/white.
It is a functionality of the CRT .